[TPIN] Transposing

[Achias1 at mchsi.com]

I think that two things that help me a lot with transposition are scales and the ability to read bass clef.

Being a band teacher, bass clef trombone and baritone parts on music that isn't too difficult come fairly 
easy now, and that makes the transposition for A picc easy (just read bass clef). Otherwise, most tonal 
music being built around scales and arpeggios makes it fairly easy for me to think of the transpositions as 
scales and arpeggios in a different key. See, there was a reason for really mastering all those scales and 
arpeggios!

I'm not a master at transposition, but those two methods are what I rely on the most.

Dave


----------------------  Original Message:  ---------------------
From:    Tptgirl at aol.com
To:      tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
Subject: Re: [TPIN] Transposing
Date:    Thu, 14 Jun 2007 02:33:49 +0000

> I think transposition is different for different people.
> Some people find it very difficult and others find it pretty easy.  It  has 
> always been pretty easy for me, reading a note a step or two above or below  
> the written note.  If it is more of a transposition than a step or two, I  think 
> of the piece in bass clef and transpose from there.
>  
> After a while, I think it almost becomes second nature, just like reading  
> the note without transposing.
>  
> When I am playing piccolo, and it is a solo that is in D, and I am playing  A 
> pic, I automatically play the transposed note without thinking much about  
> it.  I suppose it is simply a matter of practicing - and it becomes  natural,   
> just like reading music.
>  
> I know others however, some great players, that have a very difficult time  
> with transposition.  I think it must might be how you are wired.  Sort  of like 
> math comes easier to some and english comes easier to others.